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Feb. M, 1936.

w. A. WEIGHTMAN f JIG i Filed June 15,1952

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Patented Feb. 11, 1936 2,030,339

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE JIG William A. Weightman, Detroit, Mich., assignor to Budd Wheel Company, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application June 13, 1932, Serial N0. 616,879

5 Claims. (Cl. 9059) My invention relates primarily to metal vehicle to complete removal than has any other method. Wheels and to certain of the steps in the fabri- My invention is preferably illustrated in conf cation of welded artillery wheels. Further, it nection with milling or grinding of the flash and relates to means for adjustably supporting an is Shown as closely related t a Spindle milling artillery wheel spider during the removal of machine. While the milling machine per se is 5 the weld flash therefrom, not illustrated in the accompanying drawing,

It is well known in the art to construct metal anyone Skilled in the art can appreciate the genspoked wheels by welding together the contigueral arrangement, particularly in view of the folous edges of a pair of complementally shaped lowing SDeCiCeftOn. The type 0f milling Inasheet metal stampings of spider formation. The chine t0 Which my invention iS Particularly epl0 welding of these stampings unites them into a plioable is that type embodying a vertical spindle unitary wheel spider having hollow spokes and and a reciprocating table movable with respect to a hollow central portion, commonly termed a the vertical spindle, which, of course, rotates in nave. Generally, a fairly heavy Weld flash is a givenl position, the work being moved into and extruded along the line of contact of the stampout of operative position by the reciprocating 15v ings in the median plane of the spider, and this table. flash must be removed from the exterior ofthe Roughly Speaking, my invention consists in wheel before the remaining fabrication steps providing a base adapted to be secured to the leading up to the iinishing of the wheel are carreciprocating table of the milling machine, a ried out. The interior flash need not be totally lever pivoted to the base at one end thereof, and 2o removed as it is concealed from sight. It is to a rotatable jig fixture fixed to the lever and althe simple and ecient removal of the exterior lowing a wide range of movement calculated to ilash to which my invention is directed. bring different parts of the workpiece succes- 'Ihe prime object of my invention is the prosively into engagement with the tool, in order to v vision of means whereby the removal of the exform the necessary Operations upon the work. 25 terior flash from a welded artillery spider is fa- More specifically, referring to the drawing by cilitated. Other and incidental objects relate to reference numerals, I have DIOVided a flat base improvements over the prior art in detail and in I 0 adapted to be secured tothe reciprocating arrangement of parts. table through bolt holes II and slotted portions Broadly, I have achieved the objects of my in- I2. Lever I3, pivotally secured to the forward 30 vention by providing a jig fixture adapted to be end of base I0, as at I4, is provided with a hanmounted on the reciprocating table of a milling dle portion I5 and a central enlarged portion I6 machine, preferably of the spindle type. They intermediate its ends. The pivoting of lever I3 have been further achieved by a novel and eliS provided by a shouldered Stud I'I Seated in a cient arrangement of parts. e

Other ob-jects and advantages of my invention lower end by a nut I8 seated in the recessed por- Will be apparent after a readingl of the su'bjoined tion I9 of the base IIJ. Adjacent the handle porspecication in the light of the attached drawtion I5 of lever I3, a position locating pin 20 iS ing, in which provided, and embodies the usual spring arrange- 40 Y Figure 1 is a plan view of the mechanism comment whereby a yieldable plunger 2| is normally 40 prising my invention. held in a hole 22 to locate the angular position Figure 2 is a detail sectional view of my device of lever I3. 'I'he position of lever I3 may be taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1. y changed by grasping the handle I5, pulling the Figure 3 is a detail sectional view taken on line pin 20 upward in order to remove plunger 2| from 3 3 of Figure 1. hole 22 and swinging the lever I3 in a horizontal 45 Figure 4 is a detail View of the locking mechaplane to the desired position. nism comprising part of my invention. The enlarged central portion I6 of lever I3 is Several different methods have been evolved provided with an elongated shouldered stud 23, for the removal of the weld flash from artillery which holds in assembled relationship the variwheel spiders. 'Ihese methods include shearing rous parts about to be described. 'Ihese parts 50 or cutting the Weld from the Wheel body, sandcomprise a jig mechanism consisting of an annublasting or grinding the flash. While these lar table 24 having radially extending seating methods are each successful in a measure, it has portions 24 on which the spokes 25 of the welded generally been found that milling and/or grindartillery wheel body 26 are adapted to seat, and

ing the ash has resulted in a greater proximityu a central annular member 21 having an annular 55 recessed portion of the lever, and secured at its 35 series of equally spaced vertically extending pilot pins 28 adapted to pilot the securing portions of the wheel body, indicated by numeral 29. The jig fixture further consists in a top plate 3|] which may be easily removed from stud 23 by loosening nut 3| and sliding plate 3l) to a position where the nut 3| will pass through the enlarged portion 32 of slot 33.

A locating device is secured to the lower end of stud 23, and consists of a plate 34 having holes 35 with which coacts a spring plunger 36 in base I0. This plunger 36 is depressed against its supporting spring by lateral pressure from the wall of hole 35 and thus is retracted merely by moving lever I3, the table 24Lbeing positively held' against rotation relative to the lever I3 by spring plunger 31. Spring plunger 31, which prevents rotation of table 24 relative to lever I3 is operated through an appropriate system of leversv by handle 38 adjacent the handle portion I5 of lever I3. This spring plunger 31 coacts with a series of notches 39 inthe outer peripheral portion of table 24. It will be seen that I provide a number of notches equal to the number of spokes in the work piece.

The base Ill is provided with a stepped portion 40' and an arcuate slotted portion 4I which accommodates the lower end of stud 23. The tool of a standard milling cutter is indicated diagrammatically at 42 and it will be apparent that in the position shown the tool is coaxially disposed with respect to pivot pin I1'.

Inasmuch as the respective spokes of an artillery wheel spider diverge from each other, provision must necessarily be made for changing the position of the spokes in order that the straight reciprocation ailorded by the milling table may be employed in order to obtain a cut around the diverging sides of adjacent spokes. As shown in Figure 1, the reciprocation of the tableis preierably in the direction of arrow A. Lever I3 is` susceptible voi movement between two positions, the rst position as seen in Figure l and the second position corresponding to that wherein the lever I3 is moved and locked at the point 22. While lever I3 is in the initial position, the wheel spider 26 is placed in position on table 24, and locked in place by means of pilot pins 28, and plate 3B, held by nut 3| on the end of stud 23. As the milling table advances toward the constantly rotating cutter 42, thez side of spoke D is brought into contact therewith, and the weld ilash is cut ofi' uniformly as the table progressesv toward an innermost position. The rotary cutter 42 is preferably of a radius equal to the radius of the arc joining the inner ends of the spokes 25.

As rotary cutter 42 reaches the arcuate portion joining the inner ends of the spokes 25, the milling table stops in its travel. At this point lever I3 is swung to final position, by pulling out pin 20 and plunger 2|- and rotating the lever to the new position marked by hole 22. As the table 24 during this movement is locked by plunger 31 against rotation relative to lever I3, the side wall of hole 35 strikes against the plunger 36 with sufficient force to depress the latter against its spring and into itsrecess, thus permitting plate 34 to oscillatel with lever I3- around the pivot of the latter. When the plunger 2| reaches the hole 22 shown in the lower left hand portion of Fig. l, the plunger drops into the hole and simultaneously plunger 36 springs up in to the next succeeding hole 35 of plate 34. The side of the next adjacent spoke Ei is now disposed in parallel relationship to the line of reciprocation oi the milling table, and, as the table travels back from its innermost position, the ash on the side of spoke E is cut off. After completely removing the ilash from between two adjacent spokes D and E, lever I3 is returned to initial position, and table 24 is rotated to the next position. In moving lever I3 the operator draws plunger 2| from hole 22 and grasps handles I and 38V together bringing the latter close to the former and thus withdrawing plunger 31 from notch 39. This releases table 24 for rotation relative to lever I3. Movement of lever I3 is thus accomplished to the position shown in Fig. 1. At the same time plunger 36 retains engagement with hole 35 in plate 34. Plate 34 and table 24 being keyed together thus are moved by plunger 36 angularly about axis 23 and this brings spoke D into the position shown for spoke E in Fig. 1. At the same time the next adjacent spoke occupies the position formerly held by spoke D. While it would appear that because the holes 35v are concentric about the axis 23:' and the pin 36 is iixed against angular movement in the base IIJ, there could not be continuity of engagement throughout the angular range' of movement of the lever' I3. It will be noted not only that the head. of the plunger 36 is relatively of considerably smaller diameter than the holes 35, but' also that this head is of relatively shallow curved cross section presenting much inclined side walls. Thereby there exists Aample lost motion and ease of relative movement to take care oi the relatively' small angular movement ot the lever' |23 as compared with the whole circle without dis-engaging the parts. It will also be noted that pin 36 lies approximately mid-way between the two angular positions of lever I3 as defined by pins 22 and thatin each of its positions lever |31 has its angle accurately fixed by the engagement oi' pin 21| in a hole 22 and therefore that accurate registry of plunger 36 with holes 35 is not required for this purpose. This alternate reciprocation, moving. of the lever I3, and rotation of the table 24 is continued until the entire series of spokes have been 0perated upon. It will be seen that the spring plunger 36` coacting with holes 35 in plate 34,

serve to aid in locating the correct angular position of lever I3 with respect to base III. It is positively locked in such position by the action of plunger 2|v in the various holes 22 in base I0.

It will be seen that by simply changing the positonA of lever I3 from initial position to nal position while the milling table is at its innermost position, the sides oi adjacent spokesy will be brought into operative position with respect to the rotary cutter 42 so that the wheel virtually cuts in on one side oi' the spoke D and back out on the adjacent side of spoke E.

summarizing, it will be seen that I have provided a very novel and eflicient jigging arrangement for the cleaning of welded artillery wheel spiders, and it is to be distinctly understood that ing on a fixed axis. Other achievements are incidental to improvements in design, and are at once recognized.

Modifications of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art, and the appended claims therefore should be read with a breadth of understanding commensurate with the generic spirit of my invention.

What I claim is:

1. A jig fixture for holding work upon which machine operations are to be performed by the same tool through relative reciprocation of the work and the tool upon parts of the work disposed at an angle to each other, comprising a base, an oscillatable member pivoted on an axis at right angles to the base, a work holder xed to said oscillating member for angular movement with respect thereto about an axis located at one side of the pivotal axis of said oscillating member, means to support the work from the work holder in a position in which the line connecting the pivot of said member and the axis of movement of said work holder substantially bi-sects the angle between the parts of the work to be operated upon, and means defining two positions of said oscillable member spaced apart angularly about the pivot of said member by an angle equal to the said angle between the parts of the Work to be operated upon.

2. A jig xture according to claim 1 in which the oscillable member is a lever and the axis upon which the work holder is mounted lies on the lever toward its free end from the pivotal axis of the lever.

3. A jig xture according to claim 1 in which coacting means between the base and the work holder is utilized to shift the work holder when the oscillable member is shifted.

4. A jig fixture according to claim 1 in which the shifting means between the base and the work holder is yielding, and a locking detent operable from the oscillating member normally prevents relative angular movement between the oscillable member and the work holder.

5. A jig fixture according to claim 1 in which the means for xing the range of movement of said oscillating member lies Without the axial projection of the work holder and between it and the free end of the oscillable member.

WILLIAM A. WEIGHTMAN. 

